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JOHN SMEDLEY (1841-1903) A PAIR OF HONGMU BARREL STOOLS A LARGE HONGMU MARBLE-TOPPED
Jardine’s racing stables at East Point, Hong Late Qing Dynasty ROUND TABLE
Kong Set with a variegated grey marble top with Late Qing Dynasty
Watercolour on paper depicting in unusually inclusions suggestive of a mountainous The large round marble panel set within finely
precise detail the northern shore of Victoria landscape in a circular frame above shaped carved beaded edge above the apron carved
Island running along Victoria Harbour a vista aprons and four outward-curved legs each in openwork with squirrels and grapevines,
of mountains and water, signed by the artist, stool, raised on four short bracket feet. the central pillar exquisitely carved with a
framed and glazed. Each 46.5cm (18 1/3in) high x 45cm procession of demons carrying Zhong Kui
81cm (32in) wide x 42.5cm (16 3/4in) long. (17 5/7in) diam (2). the demon queller on a sedan chair, the foot

£3,000 - 5,000 carved with further intricate scrolls of grape
CNY27,000 - 45,000 £10,000 - 12,000 vines above a band of lotus and ducks, all
CNY91,000 - 110,000 supported on four feet carved as bats.
約翰．斯梅德利（1841-1903年） 126cm (49 1/2in) diam. x 88cm (34 1/2in) high.
水彩銅鑼灣通景圖 鏡框
清末 硬木嵌大理石坐墩 一對 £6,000 - 8,000
Provenance: an English private collection CNY54,000 - 72,000
Compare with a related pair of hongmu
來源：英國私人收藏 drumstools, which is illustrated by R.H.
Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: One Hundred 清末 紅木鏤雕鍾馗出遊紋嵌大理石圓桌
John Smedley was a late 19th century and Three Examples from the Mimi and
Sydney-born painter and architect whose Raymond Hung Collection, vol.2, Hong Kong,
work was influenced greatly by East Asian 2005, pl.25; compare also with a pair of
modes of painting and drawing. He travelled marble-inset hongmu barrel stools, 18th/19th
and lived much of his life throughout Japan, century, which was sold at Christie’s New
Hong Kong and China, learning from and York, 17 March 2016, lot 1334.
contributing to these communities through his
artistic and architectural practice. Smedley
travelled to Hong Kong in 1866 and became
junior partner in the firm of Storey & Son,
architects and civil engineers. He continued to
employ his artistic talents, painting scenery for
the theatre of the Club Lusitana. He made a
panoramic view of Hong Kong from the deck
of the John Adams.

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